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   XPost: comp.unix.programmer   
   From: rjk@greenend.org.uk   
      
   "A. McKenney"  writes:   
   > Based on other problems we have encountered,   
   > I'm fairly certain that Solaris 10 returns from the   
   > sendto() call before the message actually gets   
   > sent (or not sent.)   
   >   
   > OK, assuming that Solaris may fail to send a UDP   
   > message after a successful return from sendto(),   
   > where would one look for statistics on such lost   
   > messages?   
   >   
   > For messages lost on the receiving end, we run   
   > "netstat -s" -- are there fields there that would   
   > show messages lost on the sending host, too?   
      
   udpOutErrors (netstat -Pudp -s) and ipOutDiscards (netstat -Pip -s)   
   might be worth a look.  Search the opensolaris kernel source for   
   ipIfStatsOutDiscards and udpOutErrors for the details of the conditions   
   they apply to.   
      
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